Dear Darkness Paperback by Kevin Young

Product Details

• Publisher: Knopf (2010-07-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307264428
• Item Weight: 306.18 grams
• Dimensions: 22.81 x 15.16 x 1.47 cm

Delivered in Young’s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings “bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit” (San Francisco Chronicle).

About the Author

Kevin Young is the author of five previous collections of poetry. The recipient of many honors and awards, including the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.